Velvet Revolver - Set Me Free - HQ

What this video is

Released in 2003 as part of the soundtrack to the Marvel Comics film Hulk, 'Set Me Free' served as the public introduction to Velvet Revolver — a supergroup formed by former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum alongside Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland and guitarist Dave Kushner. The video's club-performance setting referenced the band's real debut gig, grounding the supergroup's…

Why it matters

Marks a pivotal moment in early-2000s hard rock as the debut visual statement of one of the era's most commercially successful supergroups. The video's performance-documentary hybrid approach became emblematic of how post-grunge rock acts authenticated themselves in an era increasingly skeptical…

The director

Dean Karr is a Seattle-born director and photographer who received a BFA from Washington State University and later attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He shot his first music video in 1994 and rose to prominence directing Marilyn Manson's…